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I Try To Be As Fearless As Possible. I Don't Always Succeed, But I Like To Think I Try.

That Idea Of Comparison Is What Fans Do. That's Why Fans Exist. They Believe In Something And Something Connects To Them, And They Have Passionate Feelings And Opinions About Films.

I Only Auditioned At Four Schools. I Started Performing And Studying When I Was In Middle School, And Then As I Got Into High School, It Just Got More Serious. I Feel Like It Became More Of A Vocation. It Became Clear To Me At That Point That I Wanted To Pursue It.

I Loved Auditioning Because It Was Just An Opportunity To Act. Whether Or Not I Got The Job Was The Next Hurdle, But The Idea That I Would Get To Act That Day Was The Thing That Excited Me The Most About It.

I Went Away To This Summer Program After My Junior Year Of High School. They Used To Have This Thing Called The Governor's School, And They Had It For Different Disciplines - Science, Math, Performing Arts. I Auditioned And I Got Accepted, And It Was An Eight-week Program Away From Home. I Went For Acting. I Was 15, And I Turned 16 While I Was There, So That Was A Seminal Moment For Me. It Made Me Realize The Life Of It, The Discipline Of It, And The Joy Of That Discipline, Where It Was All We Did.